A-Z Subject Directory

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A

0-4 Census Data Reporting
21st Century Community Learning Centers
4-Day School Week
504 Plans
Academic Standards (K-12)
ACCESS and Alternate ACCESS for ELLs
Accessible Educational Materials
Achievement and Integration Program
Achievement Level Descriptors
ACHF (Arts and Culture Heritage Fund Grants for Libraries)
ADM/LEP (EDRS)
ADM Web Estimates (ADMWE)
ADMWE (ADM Web Estimates)
Adult Basic Education and GED
Adult Diploma Program
Advanced Placement
Advisory Boards, Councils and Task Forces
After School and Out-of-School Programs
Afterschool Snack Program
Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Alternate Assessment/Minnesota Test of Academic Skills (MTAS)
Alternative Delivery of Specialized Instructional Services (ADSIS)
Alternative Dispute Resolutions Services (Special Education)
Alternative Learning
American Indian Education
Apply for an Educator License
Arts
Arts and Culture Heritage Fund Grants for Libraries (ACHF)
Assessments (Statewide Testing)
Assessment Secure Reports
Assistive Technology
Assurance of Compliance and Mandated Reporting
At-Risk Afterschool Meals
Athletics Data Reporting
Audits
Authorizer Performance
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Average Daily Membership

B

Back-to-School Toolkits
Becoming a Minnesota Educator
Becoming a Special Education Teacher
Behavioral Intervention
Bilingual Seals
Blind-Visually Impaired
Board of School Administrators (BOSA)
Board of Teaching (Minnesota)
Braille and Talking Book Library
Bullying Concerns and Ways to Help
Business and Marketing

C

CACFP (Child and Adult Care Food Program)
Calendar, MDE
Calendar (Instructional Days)
Calendar (District and School Reporting)
Care and Treatment Education Programs
Career and College Success
Career Readiness
Career Technical Education Levy Recalculation Web-Based Reporting System
Career Technical Education
Careers at MDE
Carl Perkins
Categorical Disabilities
Census Reporting (Birth-4)
Charter Schools
Charter Schools Program (CSP) Grant
Child and Adult Care Food Programs (CACFP)
Child Count
Civil Rights Compliance
Civil Rights for USDA Programs
CLiCS Claims and Reporting
CLiCS Program Administration
Clock Hour Reporting
Clock Hours for Administrators (CEU)
Collaborative Minnesota Partnerships to Advance Student Success (COMPASS)
College-in-the-Schools (Concurrent Enrollment)
College Readiness and Planning

Commissioner’s Leadership Team
Commissioner's Office
Common Course Catalog
Community Education
Community Nutrition Programs
COMPASS (Collaborative Minnesota Partnerships to Advance Student Success)
Compliance and Assistance Q and As
Compulsory Instruction Compliance Data Reporting
Concurrent Enrollment (College-in-the-Schools)
Conflicts in Special Education
Contact Us
Continuing Education Clock Hour Reporting
Continuous Improvement in Districts and Schools
Counting All Students Report
Curriculum and Instruction
Cyber-Linked Interactive Child Nutrition System (CLiCS)
Cyberbullying

D

Data Center
Data Disaggregation
Data Practices
Data Reports and Analytics
Data Submissions
Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Resource Center
Deaf-Blind
Department of Defense Fresh Produce
Desegregation
Developmental Cognitive Disabilities
Developmental Delay
Digital Equity Data Collection
Direct Certification
Directions/Map
Disabilities, Special Education
Disciplinary Incident Reporting System (DIRS)
Discipline
Discrimination
Dispute Resolution (Special Education)
District and School Site Verification
District Organization/Reorganization
Dropout Prevention/At-Risk Students
Dual Credit
Due Process Forms
Due Process Rights, Data Privacy and Other Student Rights
Dyslexia

E

Early Childhood Family Education
Early Childhood Indicators of Progress
Early Childhood Longitudinal Data System (ECLDS)
Early Childhood Screening
Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE)
Early Childhood Special Education (Part B/619)
Early Education Student
Early Intervention Program for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities, Part C
Early Learning Programs
Early Learning Scholarships Program (ELSA)
Early Learning Services Data Reporting
Early Start – Flexible Learning Year
Earn College Credit in High School
EDIAM
ED-FI
Education Minnesota
Educator License Lookup
Educator Licensing
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)/Federal Title Programs
Elementary & Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER FUNDS)
ELSA Early Learning Scholarship Adminstration System
ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act)
Emergency Planning for Schools
Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
Employment/Careers
Engaging Families
English Language and Multilingual Learning
English Language Arts
English Language Development Standards
English Learner Disability Resources
English Learner Support
Enrollment Types
Engagement (Family, Community and School)
Ensuring Safe and Supportive Schools
(ESSA) Every Student Succeeds Act
ESSER FUNDS (Elementary & Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund)

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Center
Ethics
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
Expulsion
External User Access Recertification

F

Facilitated Team Meetings
Facilities Age and Square Footage Report
Facilities and Technology
FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)
Family and Consumer Science
Family Engagement
Family Outcome Survey
Family, School and Community Engagement
Farm to School and Early Care
Federal Aid
Federal Title Programs (ESEA)
Financial Management
Fiscal Compliance Table
Fiscal Monitoring
Flexible Learning Year
Food and Nutrition Services
Food Distribution Program
Food Safety
Forms
Foster Care – Requirements for Schools and Districts
Free and Reduced-Price Process
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program
Funding Projections and Trends

G

GED
General Education
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in K-12
Gifted Education
Government Relations
Graduation Requirements
Graduation Requirements (GRR)
Grants
Green Ribbon Schools

H

Head Start
Health and Physical Education
Health and Safety (Data Submission)
Health and Safety (School Facilities)
Health Science Technology
Healthy Students
Help Me Grow (Districts)
Help Me Grow (Families)
Higher Education Institutions
Highly Qualified Teacher Requirements
Homeless McKinney-Vento
Homeschools

I

ICC (Interagency Coordinating Council)
Identified Official with Authority (IOwA)
Immigrant Children and Youth
Immunizations (Minnesota Department of Health)
Indian Education (See American Indian Education)
Individual Education Program (IEP)
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
Industrial Technology
Infant and Toddler Intervention Services (Part C) Rules
Information for County Auditors
Instructional Days (School Calendar)
Integration
Integration Rules
Interagency Coordinating Council (ICC)
International Baccalaureate
IOwA (Identified Official with Authority)
Item Samplers

K

K-12 Online Course Offerings
Kindergarten
L

LEAPS Act
Learning Disabilities
Legislation and Rulemaking
Legislative Reports
Levy Certification System
Levy Information System
Libraries
Licensing
License Renewal
Licensure Requirements
Literacy
Loan Forgiveness Teacher’s Loans
LSTA (Library Services & Technology Act)

M

Mailing Lists (Schools and Districts)
Maltreatment of Students
Management Team
Maps
MARSS (Student Accounting)
MARSS Web Edit System (WES)
Mathematics
MCAs (Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment)
MCIS (Minnesota Career Information System)
MDE-ORG Schools and Organization Directory
Mediation
Medication Dispensing in Schools (Minnesota Department of Health)
Media/Social Media
Migrant Education Program
Military Families
Milk Programs
Minnesota Automated Reporting Student System (MARSS)
Minnesota Board of School Administrators (BOSA)
Minnesota Braille and Talking Book Library
Minnesota Career Information System (MCIS)
Minnesota Common Course Catalogue
Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs)
Minnesota Continuous Improvement Process: Self Review (MNCIMP:SR)
Minnesota Early Indicator and Response System (MEIRS)

Minnesota Kindergarten Fall Assessment (MnKFA)
Minnesota Office of Higher Education
Minnesota Report Card
Minnesota Resource Center Libraries
Minnesota School Safety
Minnesota Student Survey (MSS)
Minnesota Teacher License Exam (MTLE)
Minnesota Test of Academic Skills (MTAS)
Minnesota Tests
Model Policies
Monitoring (Special Education)
Monitoring Title I-A and Title II-A
MSS (Minnesota Student Survey)
MTAS (Minnesota Test of Academic Skills)
MTLE (Minnesota Teacher License Exam)
Multitype Library Systems

N

Neglected Delinquent or At-Risk
News Center
No Child Left Behind-(ESSA)
Nonpublic and Homeschools
Nonpublic Special Education
Nutritional Quality and Meal Pattern

O

Office of Higher Education (OHE)
OHE (Office of Higher Education)
Olmstead Plan
Online Learning
Online Licensing System
Open Enrollment
Other Health Disabilities
Out-of-School Time Learning

P

Paraprofessionals
Parent Aware Ratings-Public Programs
Parental Rights
Part B and Part C Resources
Pathway II Program Resources for Awardees
PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports)
PELSB (Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board)
Performance Indicators and Data Collection
Personal Learning Plans
Physical Holds and Seclusion
Physically Impaired
Portfolio, Educator Licensing
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO)
Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) School Finance
Pre-kindergarten/Preschool
Press Releases
Principal Development and Evaluation
Private Schools (Nonpublic)
Procedural Safeguards
Professional Development
Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB)
Program Approval (Career Technical Education)
Program Monitoring (Special Education)
Program Review (Title III)
PSEO (Postsecondary Enrollment Options)

Q

Q Comp

R

READ Act
Read Well K-3 Data and Plan Upload
Reading Proficiency
Recalls (Food Products)
Recess
Referendum
Regional Centers of Excellence
Related Services
Renew a License
Restorative Practices
Restrictive Procedures
Rulemaking Docket
Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP)

S

Safe and Supportive Schools
Safety - Transportation
Scholars of Distinction
School Calendar (Attendance, Snow Days)
School Choice
School Climate
School Construction
School Facilities (Buildings, Construction)
School Finance
School Finance Award
School Health Services
School Libraries
School Meal Programs (School Breakfast and Lunch)
School Nurse Licensing
School Nurses (Minnesota Department of Health)
School Nutrition Programs
School Readiness
School Readiness Plus
School Recognition Programs
School Safety and Technical Assistance Center
School Technology
School Transportation
Schools and Organizations (MDE-ORG)
Schools, Districts and Teachers at a Glance
Science
Screening (Pre-K, Kindergarten)
Seamless Summer Option

S-EBT
SEAP (Special Education Advisory Panel)
Seclusion
Secondary Transition
Section 504 Plans
Secure Reports
SEDRA (Special Education Data Reporting Application)
SEL (Social and Emotional Learning)
Service Occupations
Service-Learning
SERVS Financial
Severely Multiply Impaired
Sign Language Interpreters
SLEDS (Statewide Longitudinal Data System)
SLIFE
Smart Snacks
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Social Studies
SPDG (State Personnel Development Grant Policy)
Special Dietary Needs
Special Education Advisory Panel (SEAP)
Special Education Data Reporting Application (SEDRA)
Special Education Due Process Hearings
Special Education (Families)
Special Education (Districts)
Special Education (School Finance)
Special Education Compliance Document Upload
Special Education Rules
Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD)
Speech or Language Impairments
SPP (State Performance Plan)
Staff Development
Standard Adult Diploma
STAR Web Edit System
State Educational Record View and Submissions (SERVS)
State Library Services
State Performance Plan (SPP)
State Personnel Development Grant Policy (SPDG)
Statewide Assessment for Students with Disabilities
Statewide Longitudinal Data System (SLEDS)
Statewide Testing
Statewide Testing (Districts)
Statutory Operating Debt
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)
Student Accounting (MARSS)
Student Discipline
Student ID Validations
Student Loans
Student Maltreatment
Student Support Data Collection
Students with Disabilities
Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (S-EBT)
Summer Food Service
Summer Learning
Superintendents
Suspension

T

Teacher Development and Evaluation
Teacher Disciplinary Inquiry System
Teacher Licensing
Teacher License Lookup
Teacher Preparation Programs/Minnesota Licensure Fields
Teacher Programs
Team Nutrition
Test Specifications
Test Web Edit System (TestWES)
Testing and Assessment
Third Party Reimbursement (Special Education)
Title I, Part A
Title II
Title III
Title IX Civil Rights Act
Training: At-Risk Afterschool Meals
Training: Child and Adult Care Food Program for Centers
Training: Civil Rights Compliance
Training: Fiscal Monitoring
Training: K-12 Academic Standards
Training: MARSS Student Accounting
Training: Program Monitoring
Training: School Nutrition Programs
Training: School Safety Technical Assistance
Training: Section 504
Training: Special Education
Training: Summer Food
Transition Disabled
Transportation
Traumatic Brain Injury
Truancy, Discipline
Tuition Billing

U

Uniform Financial Accounting Records System (UFARS)
UFARS File Upload

V

Verification of District and School Site Information
Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten

W

Work-Based Learning
World Languages
World's Best Workforce